the problem is when you say "build a url to an instance of this request target" wicket doesnt hold on to the instance, nor does it have any way to recreate it.
what you can do is add a behavior to the page and construct a url to that behavior. -igor On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Alec Swan <alecs...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't really need a stable URL. In fact, I would prefer if the link > URL was session or page-specific so that it cannot be accessed by > anybody unless they first accessed the page that contains the link. > > I would like to do something along the lines of the code in my > original post. In other words, I would like to create a new > RequestTarget and get its URL and display that URL to the user. > > Thanks, > > Alec > > > On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Igor Vaynberg <igor.vaynb...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> create a resource and register it in shared resources, this will allow >> you to create a stable url. the filename and reportdata you will have >> to pass on the url. >> >> -igor >> >> On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Alec Swan <alecs...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> We use a templating engine which generates parts of our pages. >>> Templates can be included on any page. We need the engine to be able >>> to generate a link which will display a report when clicked. I tried >>> using the following code, but it returns null from >>> RequestTarget.urlFor(..): >>> >>> public String getReportLink() { >>> return "" + RequestCycle.get().urlFor(new >>> DownloadCsvRequestTarget(fileName, reportData)); >>> } >>> >>> Where DownloadCsvRequestTarget implements respond() method to write >>> reportData our in CSV format. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Alec >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org >>> >>> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org